Bablake School

The school was founded in 1560 with 21 boys. Bablake church, now known as St John's, stands adjacent to the school's original buildings. The school holds concerts in the church, and has sung Evensong there. Many of the pupils were originally choristers of the church. The relationship continued through the figure of Edward Jackson, who from 1734 was vicar of the church and headmaster of the school. The expansion of the Bablake site continued via land grants. In the 1890s, Bablake moved to its current site in Coundon Road, where it continued as a public school with six all-boys' boarding houses. In the 1930s, fifty acres of land on Hollyfast Road were purchased to expand the playing fields of…

The Bablake site houses two schools: a junior school that takes children between year 3 and year 6, and a senior school that takes children between year 7 and sixth form. The school uses the house system.